BARTLETT — The Bartlett School Board will return $580,320 to citizens to offset taxes.
The board voted earlier this month not to retain the up to 2.5 percent of the fund balance, or $179,659, for emergency purposes, and later voted not to go this route on future year-end fund balances.
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